This week my phone is throwing out a lot of photos of empty places from two years ago, as we were on the cusp of what we now know is called “lockdown” and then was called “quarantine”.
A beautifully poignant reflection. I am ordering "Stories from the City of God" and hope that I will have time to read it before my next visit. Your writing has me missing the Before Times and feeling quite homesick for a place that is not even my home!
I visited twice between the opening windows and the slamming doors of Covid before being trapped for nearly two months the last time. It was a beautiful if eerie prison with seemingly one inmate and I had the Vatican Museums & Sistine alone on their reopening. I'll never see the city in that privileged, if besieged, way again and I'm both glad I did and glad I shan't.
Pasolini's Theorum was a formative experience. He really was terrific and I'll find that book. Thank you.
A beautifully poignant reflection. I am ordering "Stories from the City of God" and hope that I will have time to read it before my next visit. Your writing has me missing the Before Times and feeling quite homesick for a place that is not even my home!
A great read! Thanks.
thank you!
I visited twice between the opening windows and the slamming doors of Covid before being trapped for nearly two months the last time. It was a beautiful if eerie prison with seemingly one inmate and I had the Vatican Museums & Sistine alone on their reopening. I'll never see the city in that privileged, if besieged, way again and I'm both glad I did and glad I shan't.
Pasolini's Theorum was a formative experience. He really was terrific and I'll find that book. Thank you.
So terrific, and thank you!